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Monosoonal precipitation responses of shrubs in a cold desert community on the Colorado Plateau

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Lin, Guanghui, Phillips, Susan L, and Ehleringer, James R, Monosoonal precipitation responses of shrubs in a cold desert community on the Colorado Plateau: .

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South-eastern Utah forms a northern border for the region currently influenced by the Arizona monosoonal system, which feeds moisture and summer precipitation into western North America. One major consequence predicted by global climate change scenarios is an intensification of monosoonal (summer) precipitation in the aridland areas of the western United States. We examined the capacity of dominant perennial shrubs in a Colorado Plateau cold desert ecosystem of southern Utah, United States, to use summer moisture inputs. We simulated increases of 25 and 50 mm summer rain events on Atriplex canescens, Artemisia filifolia, Chrysothamus nauseosus, Coleogyne ramosissima, and Vanclevea stylosa, in July and September with an isotopically [...]

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